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Question
Some flowers are used in different forms - like rose and marigold are used in garlands and as loose petals too.
- Find out the prices of these different forms.
One flower ______ One garland ______ One bouquet ______ - Has the flower-seller learnt to make bouquets or a net of flowers from anybody? From whom?
- Would they like the other members of their family to do this work? Why?
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Solution
- Find out the prices of these different forms.
One flower Rs. 50/- One garland Rs. 20/- One bouquet Rs. 5/- - Generally, they learn to make bouquets or garlands of flowers from their elders.
- Yes, they would like the other members of their family to do this work because this work also provides a good income.
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Children who can bring flowers may bring one or two flowers to class. Remember that you must collect only fallen flowers. Do not pluck any flowers. Make groups of three or four children and look at one flower carefully -
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- What does it look like – a bell, a bowl, a brush or anything else?
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- Outside the petals, can you see any green leafy structure? How many are there?
- Inside the petals, in the middle of the flower, can you see some thin structures? Write its colour.
- When you touch these, do you find a powdery thing on your hands?
What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?
Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.
- Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
- When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
- Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
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Can you think of a colour of which there is no flower?
Are any special flowers used on certain occasions/festivals by your elders? Make a list of different occasions and the flowers used at each.
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You could do this in groups of five or six each.
- Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
- Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
- Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
- Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
- After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
- You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.
